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Ranking Travel Destinations: France, Italy, Turkey, and Kyoto's Fakery
from Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #436 · #436
3 min
Tim and Andrew debate favorite travel destinations, praising indulgent South of France and passionate Italy, while dismissing Kyoto's geisha tourism as performative Disneyland, and debating whether Italian food is really better in Italy.
- Tim ranks French culture as built entirely around immediate comfort and avoiding inconvenience—work as little as possible, everything must smell, taste, and feel the best.
- Italy and Turkey both have appeal: Italy for raw passion, Turkey for history.
- Italian desserts disappoint because they use olive oil instead of cream, with gelato and tiramisu as the only exceptions.
- Tim argues that Italian chefs should drop the ego and remove olive oil from desserts—the health benefit doesn't matter when you're choosing something sweet.
- The claim that Italian food in Italy is vastly superior to American Italian food is overstated; elite Italian restaurants in New York likely cook better than regular roadside places in Italy.
- Tim calls New York the best city in the world and says it's not even debatable.